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Cross-platform Desktop Application Development: Electron, Node, NW.js, and React
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Cross-platform Desktop Application Development: Electron, Node, NW.js, and React

by Dmitry Sheiko
July 2017
Intermediate to advanced
300 pages
5h 43m
English
Packt Publishing
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Implementing chat services

I believe that it's more or less clear how WebSockets works now, and we can apply the API for our chat. However, in a real application, we need something more than to echo sent texts. Let's put the intended event scenarios on paper:

  • The Welcome component handles user input and sends via the client to the join server event with the entered user name in the payload
  • The server receives the join event, adds a new user to the set, and broadcasts the participants event with the updated set
  • The client receives the participants event and passes the set to the Participants component, which updates the participant's list
  • The Conversation component handles user input and sends the entered message via the client to the server ...
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